Joe DiPrima ca9e5ff5c0 #173 FINAL: port cadence defect FIXED -- the velocity ring now samples at the pod's 28Hz by default (BT_MYO_RING_HZ overrides). Measured [T2, six curves m173v2]: at ~59fps the |a| operand carried 64-66% gait-aliasing noise = drive heat 2x the machine's; at 28Hz + the authored loop-5 boost (detent 50 receipt-proven, flow 0.909) a vulture holds FULL supercharge 54-57 u/s indefinitely at stable Tm~1500 -- the machine's valve lever worked, the manual's Super Charged print was honest, witnesses 7-0 (Draco/Oracle/Elengil + the user's eyes beat the solver AND the first bench). Balanced seek-4 still cooks authentically (~18s); wrap trap stands; display pixel-verified in sync. BT_VALVE5 bench hook added (receipted detent presses). Post-promotion smoke: boosted vulture stable ~1500 dipping under. Gotcha 32 (sampled-history operands at render cadence; a validated model EXTRAPOLATES, only the bench INTERPOLATES); cadence census -> BTSimClock migration checklist in open-questions (gyro bounce timescale next, footstep smoothers, doppler; heatLoad was already pod-clocked #119 = the reference pattern). Guide 2B rewritten with the confession + the measured fix

2026-08-13 19:03:41 -05:00

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asset-formats.md

#87: mech armour PANELS now darken with damage -- the .DZM material system was loaded and unused

2026-07-31 19:52:55 -05:00

bgf-format.md

KB sweep: the game is NOT '1995' -- era witnesses say BT 4.10 shipped later, and the 1995 belief traced to the MUNGA library RCS strings inside BTL4OPT.EXE (library code date, not the game; the exe has no game-copyright year). ~120 era references across CLAUDE.md/context/glossary/handout rewritten to 'the original'/'the shipped machine'; genuine dated facts kept (RCS $Id strings, Borland 1994, the 30-Nov-1995 asset timestamp); dating note + evidence added to project-overview.md

2026-08-12 11:50:56 -05:00

build-and-run.md

KB sweep: the game is NOT '1995' -- era witnesses say BT 4.10 shipped later, and the 1995 belief traced to the MUNGA library RCS strings inside BTL4OPT.EXE (library code date, not the game; the exe has no game-copyright year). ~120 era references across CLAUDE.md/context/glossary/handout rewritten to 'the original'/'the shipped machine'; genuine dated facts kept (RCS $Id strings, Borland 1994, the 30-Nov-1995 asset timestamp); dating note + evidence added to project-overview.md

2026-08-12 11:50:56 -05:00

cockpit-view.md

KB: #91 inside-view roster claim upgraded to T1 (FUN_004cef28 decomp anchor)

2026-08-04 14:17:21 -05:00

combat-damage.md

weapons physics audit (7-agent, all classes): docs/WEAPONS_FIELD_GUIDE.txt (tester-facing per-weapon review doc for the playtest group) + docs/WEAPONS_DRIFT_AUDIT.md (engineering drift table with addresses/tiers). Headline corrections the audit itself produced: (1) GAUSS RETRACTION -- the fielded GAUSS record is classID 0xBCD ProjectileWeapon (BTL4.RES @0xf16e6 raw bytes), full AC hitscan WITH damage; GaussRifle 0xBCE + shell 0xBD1 are dead code BOTH sides (zero shipped records; content census 78x0xBC8/16x0xBCD/30x0xBD0/14x0xBD4); the 'port Gauss damage is an invention' claim retracted in KB + ticket. (2) effectiveRange K byte-confirmed 1.0f @004b9c98. (3) PPC EnergyDamage victim-side GAUGE SCRAMBLE rider identified (@004a0230 -> gauge renderer) -- unimplemented in port, and it is exactly what Cyd's held ppc-sync-distortion branch implements: that branch is an AUTHENTIC-feature candidate, not an invention. (4) AC tracer TOF constants recovered (2.0f @0x4bc678, 1/9.8 x87 EXTENDED @0x4bc67c) -- port's 1.0 stand-ins closable. (5) missiles verified FAITHFUL end-to-end (382-impact corpus matches the salvo roll). Era questions consolidated in the guide; #21 overcharge-brick rescue documented as the one deliberate energy deviation

2026-08-13 14:08:35 -05:00

content-archives.md

KB: full staleness audit + sweep -- 35 verified corrections across 16 topics, 15 new glossary terms

2026-07-11 10:56:51 -05:00

decomp-reference.md

#21 closed at the true root + 'arcade shipped a brick' RETRACTED (era witnesses 6-0): _DAT_004ba830 is a DOUBLE 1.0, not float 0.0 -- the entire brick claim was a constant-width misread (dword read of a qword; the low half of 1.0's mantissa is zeros). Binary truth [T1 raw disasm @004ba738]: overcharge CLAMPS to exactly 1.0f, the ==1.0 Loaded test passes next tick, the weapon fires the stored charge at normal top-gear damage (divisor is the recommended gear). Fix: clamp corrected to 1.0f; the rescue scaffolding REMOVED (it patched our own misread -- 38 'rescues' were 38 events the machine silently clamped); gauge-side zeroing inherits the fix, which is almost certainly #21's ORIGINAL field symptom (dark recharge arc + dark ready-dot = the dial reading our zeroed ratio while the rescue kept the weapon firing). seek21 bench PASS: 65 switches / 16 wraps / 9 overcharges -> fires through all, 13 post-overcharge gauge probes FULL, zero rescue prints. Docs: field guide section 2 rewritten as settled-by-testimony (credit to the group), decomp-reference block retracted with extracted constants, drift audit energy lane -> FAITHFUL, ZERO deviations. The witnesses' 'nah, that didn't happen' was worth eight bytes read at full width

2026-08-13 17:59:24 -05:00

experience-levels.md

KB sweep: the game is NOT '1995' -- era witnesses say BT 4.10 shipped later, and the 1995 belief traced to the MUNGA library RCS strings inside BTL4OPT.EXE (library code date, not the game; the exe has no game-copyright year). ~120 era references across CLAUDE.md/context/glossary/handout rewritten to 'the original'/'the shipped machine'; genuine dated facts kept (RCS $Id strings, Borland 1994, the 30-Nov-1995 asset timestamp); dating note + evidence added to project-overview.md

2026-08-12 11:50:56 -05:00

gauges-hud.md

commit-hygiene sweep: (1) the #170 L4STEAMNET.h contract comment never landed in 2fe58b8 -- the git add used the lowercase filename and the case-mismatch left the tracked (uppercase) path unstaged, silently; (2) the gauges-hud #172 correction was a silent no-op -- a python str.replace whose multi-line needle didn't match printed 'corrected' anyway. Both applied for real now (verified by grep, not by exit code). Note the pattern: two silent tool no-ops in one evening -- verify edits by READING the result, not by the tool's success message

2026-08-13 02:15:45 -05:00

glass-cockpit.md

KB sweep: the game is NOT '1995' -- era witnesses say BT 4.10 shipped later, and the 1995 belief traced to the MUNGA library RCS strings inside BTL4OPT.EXE (library code date, not the game; the exe has no game-copyright year). ~120 era references across CLAUDE.md/context/glossary/handout rewritten to 'the original'/'the shipped machine'; genuine dated facts kept (RCS $Id strings, Borland 1994, the 30-Nov-1995 asset timestamp); dating note + evidence added to project-overview.md

2026-08-12 11:50:56 -05:00

locomotion.md

KB sweep: the game is NOT '1995' -- era witnesses say BT 4.10 shipped later, and the 1995 belief traced to the MUNGA library RCS strings inside BTL4OPT.EXE (library code date, not the game; the exe has no game-copyright year). ~120 era references across CLAUDE.md/context/glossary/handout rewritten to 'the original'/'the shipped machine'; genuine dated facts kept (RCS $Id strings, Borland 1994, the 30-Nov-1995 asset timestamp); dating note + evidence added to project-overview.md

2026-08-12 11:50:56 -05:00

multiplayer.md

KB sweep: the game is NOT '1995' -- era witnesses say BT 4.10 shipped later, and the 1995 belief traced to the MUNGA library RCS strings inside BTL4OPT.EXE (library code date, not the game; the exe has no game-copyright year). ~120 era references across CLAUDE.md/context/glossary/handout rewritten to 'the original'/'the shipped machine'; genuine dated facts kept (RCS $Id strings, Borland 1994, the 30-Nov-1995 asset timestamp); dating note + evidence added to project-overview.md

2026-08-12 11:50:56 -05:00

open-questions.md

#173 FINAL: port cadence defect FIXED -- the velocity ring now samples at the pod's 28Hz by default (BT_MYO_RING_HZ overrides). Measured [T2, six curves m173v2]: at ~59fps the |a| operand carried 64-66% gait-aliasing noise = drive heat 2x the machine's; at 28Hz + the authored loop-5 boost (detent 50 receipt-proven, flow 0.909) a vulture holds FULL supercharge 54-57 u/s indefinitely at stable Tm~1500 -- the machine's valve lever worked, the manual's Super Charged print was honest, witnesses 7-0 (Draco/Oracle/Elengil + the user's eyes beat the solver AND the first bench). Balanced seek-4 still cooks authentically (~18s); wrap trap stands; display pixel-verified in sync. BT_VALVE5 bench hook added (receipted detent presses). Post-promotion smoke: boosted vulture stable ~1500 dipping under. Gotcha 32 (sampled-history operands at render cadence; a validated model EXTRAPOLATES, only the bench INTERPOLATES); cadence census -> BTSimClock migration checklist in open-questions (gyro bounce timescale next, footstep smoothers, doppler; heatLoad was already pod-clocked #119 = the reference pattern). Guide 2B rewritten with the confession + the measured fix

2026-08-13 19:03:41 -05:00

operator-console.md

KB sweep: the game is NOT '1995' -- era witnesses say BT 4.10 shipped later, and the 1995 belief traced to the MUNGA library RCS strings inside BTL4OPT.EXE (library code date, not the game; the exe has no game-copyright year). ~120 era references across CLAUDE.md/context/glossary/handout rewritten to 'the original'/'the shipped machine'; genuine dated facts kept (RCS $Id strings, Borland 1994, the 30-Nov-1995 asset timestamp); dating note + evidence added to project-overview.md

2026-08-12 11:50:56 -05:00

pod-hardware.md

velocity/dt audit: DRAG WAS THE GOVERNOR -- the binary applies -0.001*v^2 every frame, burn AND coast (@004bef78 + thruster @004be474, ctor precomputes terminal sqrt(T/COD) into +0x348 as the seeker lead base; authored COD 0.001 byte-read from BTL4.RES type-15 srm/lrm/strk/nrk). The port omitted it: LRM hit 3030 u/s at burnout vs the machine's 547.7 terminal (5.5x), 3912u downrange at t=5s vs 2108u -- a major slice of the 'missiles reach anything' field feel. Pool now integrates speed += (accel - 0.001*v^2)*dt. The dt MODEL itself verified FAITHFUL (Mover zeroes accel per frame + integrates x dt in seconds, matched line-for-line to T0 MOVER.cpp -- the 28Hz myomer idiom does NOT apply; open-question closed). AC cosmetic tracer TOF constants landed (2.0f @0x4bc678, 1/9.8 x87 EXTENDED @0x4bc67c, muzzleHeight term via ResolveLaunchVelocity deferred-first-use). Stale banners swept (misthrst @004be474 recovered; projweap #168 flight-contact banner gone). KB: decomp-reference Mover-gravity fix + flight-model bullet, coast gravity = 6.5 not 9.8. Drift audit: SSVELOCITY/DT + SSRANGE AUTHENTICITY (manual cross-check: PPC/AFC100 MATCH, SRM 450-vs-800 authoring drift; rangefinder ladder NOT miscalibrated -- fixed 0-1200 + authored pips both sides; -100m range-bias state unimplemented, parked). Build clean

2026-08-13 14:58:04 -05:00

project-overview.md

KB sweep: the game is NOT '1995' -- era witnesses say BT 4.10 shipped later, and the 1995 belief traced to the MUNGA library RCS strings inside BTL4OPT.EXE (library code date, not the game; the exe has no game-copyright year). ~120 era references across CLAUDE.md/context/glossary/handout rewritten to 'the original'/'the shipped machine'; genuine dated facts kept (RCS $Id strings, Borland 1994, the 30-Nov-1995 asset timestamp); dating note + evidence added to project-overview.md

2026-08-12 11:50:56 -05:00

reconstruction-gotchas.md

#173 FINAL: port cadence defect FIXED -- the velocity ring now samples at the pod's 28Hz by default (BT_MYO_RING_HZ overrides). Measured [T2, six curves m173v2]: at ~59fps the |a| operand carried 64-66% gait-aliasing noise = drive heat 2x the machine's; at 28Hz + the authored loop-5 boost (detent 50 receipt-proven, flow 0.909) a vulture holds FULL supercharge 54-57 u/s indefinitely at stable Tm~1500 -- the machine's valve lever worked, the manual's Super Charged print was honest, witnesses 7-0 (Draco/Oracle/Elengil + the user's eyes beat the solver AND the first bench). Balanced seek-4 still cooks authentically (~18s); wrap trap stands; display pixel-verified in sync. BT_VALVE5 bench hook added (receipted detent presses). Post-promotion smoke: boosted vulture stable ~1500 dipping under. Gotcha 32 (sampled-history operands at render cadence; a validated model EXTRAPOLATES, only the bench INTERPOLATES); cadence census -> BTSimClock migration checklist in open-questions (gyro bounce timescale next, footstep smoothers, doppler; heatLoad was already pod-clocked #119 = the reference pattern). Guide 2B rewritten with the confession + the measured fix

2026-08-13 19:03:41 -05:00

reconstruction-method.md

KB: new topic test-harness.md -- the bench machinery + the verification doctrine

2026-08-02 09:17:01 -05:00

rendering.md

KB sweep: the game is NOT '1995' -- era witnesses say BT 4.10 shipped later, and the 1995 belief traced to the MUNGA library RCS strings inside BTL4OPT.EXE (library code date, not the game; the exe has no game-copyright year). ~120 era references across CLAUDE.md/context/glossary/handout rewritten to 'the original'/'the shipped machine'; genuine dated facts kept (RCS $Id strings, Borland 1994, the 30-Nov-1995 asset timestamp); dating note + evidence added to project-overview.md

2026-08-12 11:50:56 -05:00

source-completeness.md

KB sweep: the game is NOT '1995' -- era witnesses say BT 4.10 shipped later, and the 1995 belief traced to the MUNGA library RCS strings inside BTL4OPT.EXE (library code date, not the game; the exe has no game-copyright year). ~120 era references across CLAUDE.md/context/glossary/handout rewritten to 'the original'/'the shipped machine'; genuine dated facts kept (RCS $Id strings, Borland 1994, the 30-Nov-1995 asset timestamp); dating note + evidence added to project-overview.md

2026-08-12 11:50:56 -05:00

steam-networking.md

#170 root-caused + fixed: the #163 SteamAPI_Shutdown was the crash -- at round end every peer's close events are ALWAYS in flight, and Shutdown tears client state down while steamclient's own service thread dispatches them (the field stack: a steamclient worker calling literal NULL, zero btl4 frames, 7 hits / 3 machines / one module-relative stack). BTSteamNet_ShutdownAll is now a QUIESCE: steamActive gated FIRST, linger closes ('round over' not timeouts), one SNS drain, 60ms grace, NO SteamAPI_Shutdown -- and every exit path dies via TerminateProcess (menu-quit no longer returns through the CRT; it uses BTOrderlyDie like everything else, so the 883 detach deadlock stays dead too). Status callback guarded for the dying window. Crash filter now names foreign DLL frames (module+offset via VirtualQuery/GetModuleFileName) so the next foreign-thread crash arrives pre-symbolized. Exit contract: steam-networking.md

2026-08-12 23:23:23 -05:00

subsystems.md

#173 FINAL: port cadence defect FIXED -- the velocity ring now samples at the pod's 28Hz by default (BT_MYO_RING_HZ overrides). Measured [T2, six curves m173v2]: at ~59fps the |a| operand carried 64-66% gait-aliasing noise = drive heat 2x the machine's; at 28Hz + the authored loop-5 boost (detent 50 receipt-proven, flow 0.909) a vulture holds FULL supercharge 54-57 u/s indefinitely at stable Tm~1500 -- the machine's valve lever worked, the manual's Super Charged print was honest, witnesses 7-0 (Draco/Oracle/Elengil + the user's eyes beat the solver AND the first bench). Balanced seek-4 still cooks authentically (~18s); wrap trap stands; display pixel-verified in sync. BT_VALVE5 bench hook added (receipted detent presses). Post-promotion smoke: boosted vulture stable ~1500 dipping under. Gotcha 32 (sampled-history operands at render cadence; a validated model EXTRAPOLATES, only the bench INTERPOLATES); cadence census -> BTSimClock migration checklist in open-questions (gyro bounce timescale next, footstep smoothers, doppler; heatLoad was already pod-clocked #119 = the reference pattern). Guide 2B rewritten with the confession + the measured fix

2026-08-13 19:03:41 -05:00

test-harness.md

weapons batch VERIFIED on the final tree + last two gaps closed: BYSTANDER SWEEP landed (guided damage rounds test the flight segment vs every mech, detonate on interposers like the binary's world sweep @0042291c -- 11 legitimate strikes in the sweep bench, zero self/phantom/fuze-race hits per forensics) + COAST GRAVITY (-6.5 after burnout). Comprehensive 2-node weapons_sweep bench PASS, all families: ENERGY 184 named FIRED / 79 hits; AC 17 type=1 hits ALL burst=1 + 84 ballistic pushes ALL dmg=0 (hitscan live-proven multi-node on final code); MISSILE 593 type=2 hits, 576 salvo bursts (4.0 fuze + drag speeds work); #174 guard worst-repeat=1 across 13 lives; detector SELF-TESTED against synthetic pre-fix shapes before any verdict trusted. Rig lessons -> test-harness.md: BT_FIRE_AT_ICON designates BUILDINGS (use BT_GOTO=enemy + throttled BT_AUTOFIRE/BT_AF_MISSILE, the kd pattern); mad2 'Zanin Neko' carries AFC50+ERPPC+LRM15+SRM6x2+ERMLaser -- all families on one engaging chassis; -net 1501 -> pilot :1502 mapping

2026-08-13 15:47:23 -05:00

translocation-warp.md

KB sweep: the game is NOT '1995' -- era witnesses say BT 4.10 shipped later, and the 1995 belief traced to the MUNGA library RCS strings inside BTL4OPT.EXE (library code date, not the game; the exe has no game-copyright year). ~120 era references across CLAUDE.md/context/glossary/handout rewritten to 'the original'/'the shipped machine'; genuine dated facts kept (RCS $Id strings, Borland 1994, the 30-Nov-1995 asset timestamp); dating note + evidence added to project-overview.md

2026-08-12 11:50:56 -05:00

wintesla-port.md

KB sweep: the game is NOT '1995' -- era witnesses say BT 4.10 shipped later, and the 1995 belief traced to the MUNGA library RCS strings inside BTL4OPT.EXE (library code date, not the game; the exe has no game-copyright year). ~120 era references across CLAUDE.md/context/glossary/handout rewritten to 'the original'/'the shipped machine'; genuine dated facts kept (RCS $Id strings, Borland 1994, the 30-Nov-1995 asset timestamp); dating note + evidence added to project-overview.md

2026-08-12 11:50:56 -05:00